In 2015, the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS), a U.S. government interagency committee that conducts national security reviews of foreign investments, maintained a heavy case load, reviewing 143 transactions, according to CFIUS's recently published annual report to Congress. Although the report covers transactions reviewed two years ago, it offers important insights about the committee's views on the growing national security risk of foreign investments.

In this blog post, we highlight certain key features of CFIUS's annual report.